easy front disc upgrade: stanza square headlight struts and brakes

easy rear swap: 1200 ute H165 differential, bolt on Bluebird rear discs, done it to a h190 and h165 should be the same

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easy front disc upgrade: B310 struts with discs

easy rear swap: 1200 ute H165 differential, bolt on Bluebird rear discs (at least I think that's what I heard)

i'd suspect that changeing rear driven drums over to discs might not be terribly easy. Fair bit of machining and modifications to be done there. Much easier to get a complete disc brake axel and modify that to suit i'd say.

As far as front discs are concerned i havent heard of an easy swap.
Personally i worked through a bloke who'd sort of made up a "kit" (ie: he'd done it plenty of times and new what machining to do and what bits would fit on).

I used 180B struts which also required mod's to the spring mounts and machining to the shock insert.
the late model 180B strut i used allowed any caliper with a 2.5 inch mounting bolt spread. In my case he supplied me with a single piston commodore calipre.
Easy on the parts.
the disc is ventilated and taken from an Audi.
It had to be machined for the correct offset and then he also trued up the match between the stud piece and the disc itself. This eliminated possible issues with the disc being out of true.

Anyway just relating what i was told by The man.
All a bit beyond me at home with no lathe thats for sure.

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what class do you race in? if it's an appendix J car, you can only run what was an option at the time for manufacture - ie if your car had a 3 on the tree and 4 wheel drum brakes, that's what you have to run.

if you're in IPRA, then i don't think (from memory) that there are any limits on brakes size, only limits on tyre size (which effectively limits your disc diameter anyways).

how do you race it? rally? circuit? drags?

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i race a 74 datsun 1200 and the brakes are crap, i here old holdens or falcon disk can be put on is this true????
im thnk bout putting disks on the rear as they are the origanal drums would this be very difficult to change over??